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Senior Members of Basque Separatist Group ETA Arrested in France

Politicians, analysts discount chances ETA will resume terror attacks

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David Román

Updated Sept. 22, 2015 1:00 p.m. ET

MADRID—French and Spanish authorities announced the capture of two top leaders of the Basque armed-separatist group ETA and two other people Tuesday in a police raid in southwestern France, the latest blow to a terrorist organization that once was among Europe’s most feared.

The two—David Pla and Iratxe Sorzabal—were identified as members of an ETA group that appeared on video wearing white masks in 2011 to announce a unilateral cease-fire that has held to this day. Nonetheless, they had remained in hiding, wanted in...